Re: config.guess for ev68 [Was: Re: glibc-2.2.4pre2 success onalpha]

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>]

Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com> writes:

>    > The cpu detect doesn't work for ev68, which has a different 
>    > amask value (0x1307) from the ev67 (0x307), so 
>    > scripts/config.guess returns plain alpha-unknown-linux-gnu.
>    > I'd imagine that it would be better to default an ev68 to
>    > host type alphaev67 until/whenever alphaev68 support is added.
>    
>    Please first send your patch to the config maintainers (CC'ed).  If
>    they approve it, we'll import the new config.guess version in
>    glibc.
>
> I'm going to discard this patch because the current version of
> config.guess reworks all of this stuff -- please try it out and see
> how it goes.  It uses /proc/cpuinfo, so if /proc/cpuinfo says the
> right thing on the ev68, then it's a no-op.

I just had a look at the current version and the patch still seems to
apply.  Did you commit it already?

Andreas
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